IsoTruss Rural Cell Tower Development Project

Rural communities suffer from many obstacles that prevent a constant rate of growthwith one of their most difficult problems being that their isolation makes the delivery set-updeployment and maintenance of new technologies rather difficult. Larger installations requiringthe use of helicopters and cranes to fully deploy such as most modern cell towers are alreadymonumental efforts that require hundreds to thousands of workers to fully install even in heavilypopulated modern areas. Despite the cell tower industry being one of the fastest growing marketsectors in the United States the difficulty and cost of installing cell towers causes companies andstate governments to often avoid placing them in areas that could use the extended broadbandaccess employment opportunities and systems that would ensure increased effectiveness andefficiency from those living in the area.IsoTruss Industries believes it has a potential solution to this critical rural problem. Overthe past fifteen years Dr. David Jensen and the other engineers at IsoTruss Industries haveworked together to develop IsoTruss a composite material used to develop structures that arecheaper stronger and lighter than commercial steel counterparts; four IsoTruss pillars weighingless than 1 pound collectively are capable of supporting a 11600 pound concrete block or a 9pound IsoTruss steel utility pole featuring the same strength characteristics and functions of a100 pound utility pole. Due to its lightweight but strong nature IsoTruss cell towers havepreviously been set-up and installed by small teams of less than ten people using simple pick-uptrucks and common construction tools materials which are also readily available to ruralcommunities and makes IsoTruss Cell Towers an ideal solution to expanding broadbandnetworks to rural and hard to reach areas.The purpose of this grant is to accomplish three goals:I: Further refine test and develop a new design that is cheaper lighter easier to installand ultimately a better solution for installing IsoTruss cell towers in remote hard to access areasand other rural communities in the United States.II: Research and develop a list of rural communities that have poor to no cellularbroadband access and find five areas that IsoTruss Industries believes it could install towers inshould this project and future phases be funded.III: Generate and deliver a report with the full advantages of using the proposed IsoTrusstower over other currently used cell tower designs including economic time environmental andother relevant savings.With this project IsoTruss Industries expects to be a revolutionary player in the celltower industry not only expanding much needed access to rural communities across the nationbut to further grow one of the nation's biggest markets.